The Amgen Tour of California men’s race starts on Sunday, while the separate but unequal women’s race is already under way.
Bicycling offers advice from a nine-year old bike racer, who is youngest reporter at this year’s Tour of California.
The Pasadena Weekly looks forward to the final stage, which ends in the Rose City, while Pasadena Now highlights the finish line festival and VIP experiences.
CiclaValley offers his own preview of the race.
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In a truly horrifying story from Illinois, a driver is under arrest for attempted murder and a host of other charges after she flipped off a retired police captain as he rode his bike, then repeatedly rammed his bicycle and ran over him, and fled the scene with his bike still jammed under her car.
Not surprisingly, the judge ordered a mental health evaluation.
Thanks to Andy S for the heads-up.
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Local
The EGP News says Tuesday is D-Day in CD1, while suggesting the majority Latino district could see a non-Latino elected to represent it for the first time if Cedillo supporters don’t turn out to vote.
Streetsblog examines new bike lanes on Hooper and Firestone in unincorporated South LA, which naturally don’t connect with any other bike lanes and disappear where riders need them most — in part thanks to Councilmember Curren Price’s ceaseless efforts to block a badly needed bike lane on Central Ave.
The Daily News offers photos of last year’s North Hollywood Ride of Silence; this year’s ride will take place on Wednesday.
The annual Cyclofemme ride rolls tomorrow at the new LA State Historic Park.
Collisions involving bicyclists and pedestrians make up just 18% of all collisions in Santa Monica, but result in 70% of the city’s traffic fatalities and 60% of severe injuries.
Santa Monica’s Cynergy Cycles is hosting a commute by bike clinic on Tuesday to get you ready for Bike to Work Day.
Long Beach will be honored for a plan to redefine the Long Beach Blvd corridor to enhance walkability and improve options for bicycling and transit, as well as housing.
State
Apparently, civil war has broken out in Cardiff, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a battle over which side of the railroad tracks a bike path should go on; the Coastal Commission voted to run the pathway along the railroad tracks, rather than along the Coast Highway.
An allegedly drunk San Diego driver was arrested at gun point after running away from a crash that left a bike rider seriously injured.
A 12-year old Antioch girl got her stolen $4,000 adaptive tricycle back thanks to a cop who made it his personal mission to find the thief; he found a 24-year old man riding it, who claimed he just found it.
The San Jose paper calls out salmon cyclists.
A barricaded pedestrian bridge might have spared the life of a San Lorenzo teenager who was killed by a train on his way to school; the crossing was fenced off years earlier due to concerns over graffiti and drug use. So instead of cleaning up the bridge, officials chose to put lives at risk.
The Bay Area celebrated Bike to Work Day yesterday; LA will observe it next week.
A Napa family makes a 15-mile round trip to school every day. Which shouldn’t be a big deal, but it is.
National
Toilet plungers once again form a DIY protected bike lane, this time in Providence RI. Except this time, the city plans to let them stay if they don’t impede traffic.
Boston bicyclists demand more money for safety programs in the wake of a rider’s death; the ex-wife of the victim blasted the mayor for not doing more to address traffic fatalities.
A writer for the New York Daily News gets it, asking why the NYPD cracks down on cyclists when drivers are the ones who pose the biggest danger. And the biggest jerks, in his estimation.
The widow of the bike rider killed by the drunken hit-and-run Baltimore bishop calls on drivers to put their phones down, and think before they get on the road.
A Tampa FL paper says America’s bicycling renaissance needs to be about more than just fun and fetish.
International
Toronto’s Globe and Mail considers the many ways bicycles help build better communities.
It turns out the bicyclist rammed into a tree by a pregnant London driver is a former Boston resident.
Here’s ten suggestions on where to ride on your next trip to Italy.
Australia’s Queensland state considers allowing student drivers to take a bicycle training course, and apply it as part of the required training for a driver’s license. Good idea. Except it should be required, not merely allowed.
Caught on video: An Aussie cyclist broadsides a car after bypassing stalled traffic in a bike lane, but apparently not paying attention when he entered an intersection.
Finally…
Running bicyclists and Californians out of Portland since the 1900s. Combining recreational shooting, hiking and bike on a single trail; what could possible go wrong?
And seriously. It doesn’t do a lot of good to gesture angrily at the train that just missed you, after going over the crossing gates.